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Doltone House in Sydney played host to FUTUREPROOF 2016, a meeting of higher education minds to debate and discuss the major issues affecting the Australian university and VET sectors. Speakers including VCs Barney Glover and Peter Coaldrake, Senator Kim Carr, ...

Brain scientists have isolated 74 genes linked to high educational attainment, though they say getting top marks may simply be a by-product. The research, published in the journal Nature, found these genes have a role in the brain’s development of neurons ...

Dropbox has expanded its business-to-business branch, launching Dropbox Education. Charlie Wood, country manager of Dropbox Australia and New Zealand, said, overall, this product is similar to Dropbox Business, there are tweaks to attract education staff to the product. “Dropbox Education ...

In fewer than five years, some Australian universities will be forced to shut their doors. This prediction, while brutal, reflects the sad reality that some in the Higher Education sector will only grasp the full impacts of digital disruption once ...

FUTUREPROOF 2016 is the pre-eminent conference for the Australian higher-education sector and it is running Monday and Tuesday, May 16–17, at Doltone House, Darling Island in Sydney. The conference brings together thought leaders from the industry and Parliament to discuss and ...

You can’t measure creativity, nor the soft skills needed to thrive in jobs and tertiary education, so education should end its obsession with measurement and ranking, a senior educator has argued. Meredith Melville-Jones, director of Sydney’s Bradfield Senior College, said ...

A total of 3300 residences, with an estimated value of $1.7 billion, are set to be built by the University of Canberra on campus property within the next two decades. It's part of an ambitious project aimed at re-imagining how a ...

The term ‘mumprenuer’ is trending, but research suggests it may have a dark side. Dr Meraiah Foley from the University of Sydney Business School surveyed 60 mothers who run their own businesses and found that, for the majority, being self-employed wasn’t a willing choice. ...